Pioneer Perfume started out as the place where I share stories from home perfuming and from my travels in the Pacific Northwest. Travel and scent, after all, are natural companions. But I realized in 2015 that scent had changed me so much that I now looked at it as part of my overall goal: To inhale the life around me.
That’s what I’m doing now — sharing the stories about inhaling life and stopping to reflect on the things that make me hold my breath.
This blog, while digital, is a giant F-U to the tyranny of the visual world, a handbook for living in all 5 senses in the digital age.
Where else you can find me
When I am not traveling by nose, I am a magazine writer who contributes to Sunset, Portland Monthly, Publishers Weekly, AAA Via and others.
My story on Competitive Live-Action Oregon Trail has been shared 5,000 times on Facebook.
I am also a food columnist for the Los Angeles-based journalist’s collective Zester Daily.
You might also know me (or not! 🙂 as the writer of the beloved Statesman-Journal Column Desperately Seeking Salem or from my work with the Oregon Chapter of the Fulbright Association.
I live in McMinnville, Ore. with my bonsai-sculpting, guitar-playing, fire poi-spinning husband and our two sons.
emilygrosvenor [at] gmail.com
Representation:
Hannah Brown Gordon
Foundry Literary + Media
33 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-929-5064
My great grand pappy, who came to Oregon in 1846, used to say, “They’d never have stopped us had they not put an ocean out there.” Meaning, I think, Oregon’s just a stopover for a pioneer spirit. You know you’re all right, you’re on the trail and ya gotta keep movin’.
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Love love love wisdom from Max Marbles. That’s it exactly.
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How have we not run into each other? I live in McMinnville (I moved back to Oregon five years ago after a 14-year absence), am a writer by trade and love Argyle and R. Stuart (among others). I ran into your blog looking for a way to make mint oil using the great bounty I have growing in a pot in my yard. So glad to have another writer so close.
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I don’t know! You should connect with people at the next Terroir festival, happens every April. There’s a lot of writers in town and I am slowly meeting them all! Thanks for connecting here!
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This is a great site! I’m from the area too– closeby!
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-reasons-why-newberg-oregon-is-more-than-drive-through-city
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